__________________A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

Chalk up another win for Trump's legacy.
JetBlue airlines says it will pay "every crew member employed as of December 31, 2017, a $1,000 bonus by the end of February."

If these companies do this on a yearly event then I'll agree it worked. Until then, I consider this one big Pay for Play.

These companies are making a **** load more in tax savings then what they're giving out. I don't doubt for one second that Trump promised a huge tax cut for companies in exchange for them doing something for the employees immediately so he can say....See, I did it.

So short term....good for the employees but I want to see long term benefits out of this.

If these companies do this on a yearly event then I'll agree it worked. Until then, I consider this one big Pay for Play.

maybe you should ask the employees how they feel about it.

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These companies are making a **** load more in tax savings then what they're giving out.

Of course. So what?

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I don't doubt for one second that Trump promised a huge tax cut for companies in exchange for them doing something for the employees immediately so he can say....See, I did it.

Yeah, that's realistic.

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So short term....good for the employees but I want to see long term benefits out of this.

Then be quiet for a long time and see what happens.

__________________A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

On Friday morning, the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment numbers for December, bookending President Trump’s first year in office. While the number of jobs added was lower than many analysts expected — up 148,000 — it was a continuation of the trend of growth seen over the course of 2017.

With those numbers in hand, we can now compare Trump’s first year in office to his predecessors’. And in that comparison, Trump comes out looking pretty good.

Relative to the figure from January in each president’s first year in office (excluding those presidents who took office after a death or resignation), Trump saw one of the biggest percentage-point drops in the unemployment rate.

Nuh-uhs to follow.

__________________A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

Oh, by the way - I just looked a little deeper into Friday's unemployment numbers, lot's of good news hidden under the "lackluster" 148,000 new jobs.

Unemployment across the board was good and encouraging. UE for blacks he a record low.

The number of long term unemployed (those unemployed for 27 weeks or longer) dropped 354,000 from this time last year.

The number working part time involuntarily dropped 639K from last year.

The economy created 196,000 manufacturing jobs in 2017 vs -16000 in 2016.

Let me think a bit. What was the major difference between 2016 and 2017 that could account for this good news?

Oh, yeah

TRUMPONOMICS IN, OBAMONOMICS OUT

__________________A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.

__________________A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.